WHITE, Ruth S

Ruth White (1925-2013) was an American publisher, educator, and an electronic music pioneer, most notably for her early explorations of sound using the Moog synthesiser. According to the back cover of her 1971 release Short Circuits, “Ruth White was considered among today’s most gifted arbiters of what is termed ‘the new music’.

Ruth White wrote her first composition at the age of 8 and since the age of 15 has released a steady stream of recordings. Ms White received her education at Pennsylvania’s Carnegie Institute of Technology. While she focused on classical training in piano, she also studied violin, cello, harp, clarinet, and horn. White began formal composition studies with Nikolai Lopatnikoff at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where she received her BFA and MFA in Piano and Music Composition.